MetaFilter posts tagged with Nautilus

A Shell of a House

dersins — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:48:31 -0800

The Nautilus House is pretty awesome. A little more.

Cephalopods Galore

Kattullus — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:18:06 -0800

Like squid? What about the good ol' octopus? The cuttlefish and nautilus? If you answered yes to these questions Dr. James B. Wood's Cephalopod Page is your go-to site, with information on and pictures of 25+ species of cephalopods including the aptly named (I'm sure) vampire squid from hell. The site also hosts many articles. Not sure where you stand on the coolness of cephalopods? Why don't you start by watching this video of an octopus squeezing through a one inch hole (previously on MetaFilter).

In his cups, too, he had fitful but almost demoniac inspirations for hidden truth

flabdablet — Wed, 10 May 2006 19:17:04 -0800

Another black eye for ID (youtube link): Zoologist Dan-Eric Nilsson of the University of Lund in Sweden explains how the complex human eye could have evolved gradually from a primitive light-sensitive eye-spot. Via Swift.

machaus — Wed, 16 May 2001 06:57:08 -0800

Can Linux be anything more than a Server/Developer OS without something like Eazel? Will the open-source community be able to do anything productive with its code? Or have we just reached a point where the OS is superfluous?